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Okay okay, NOW we're starting to feel old :( But hey! There's still plenty of reasons to be both happy and proud about growing up at the time we did, we live that fact every single day with our huge collection retro inspired tshirts and gifts that just have us re-living the best childhood years ever....sooooo we're not too worried now.

Alas! As spine-tingling, mind blowing, heart pounding as it is to believe, 80s icon and total movie masterpiece Top Gun is turning a whopping 28 years old today. Eeeep!

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Since hitting the silver screen for the first time back on the 12th of May 1986 at it's premiere in New York, it's had a home in all of our movie collections and has inspired some of or bestselling t-shirts EVER and many a stag weekend too. :)

To celebrate in style, we thought we would put together some of our top reasons that Top Gun is just so cool including some of our favourite scenes, quotes and pictures to have your nostalgia taste buds tinging.

So let's try and answer one simple question...Why is Top Gun just so cool? Well!!

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As soon as you here the opening chords of Kenny Loggins’ "Danger Zone," you are transported back to a time when the coolest men in the universe were flying F-14 Tomcats for the Navy and had silly names like Maverick, Goose and Ice Man. "Top Gun" made Tom Cruise a household name and gave Meg Ryan one of her first movie gigs. But even though it’s one of the most frequently quoted guy movies, how well do you really know it? Here are some facts about "Top Gun" that might surprise you.

10 - The bar in which a boozy rendition of "Great Balls of Fire" was performed is real, and still exists. It’s called Kansas City BBQ, and it’s in San Diego, California. Although a 2008 fire destroyed a lot of its memorabilia, the piano is still there and they still sell Top Gun t-shirts.

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